Phnom Penh: A special Singapore Airlines flight with almost 200 Australians on board left Phnom Penh on Sunday with passengers desperate to get home amid a lockdown in Cambodia due to the coronavirus. ( read original story ...)
Hundreds of Australians evacuated from Cambodia on charter flight
A Singapore Airlines charter flight has evacuated 200ns from Cambodia where heavy travel restrictions put in place across the country are restricting movement between provinces, making it difficult ... ( read original story ...)
Cambodia adopts law to allow for emergency powers to tackle coronavirus
Cambodia's parliament passed a law on Friday to prepare the way for a state of emergency, which Prime Minister Hun Sen has said he might have to declare to reinforce the campaign against the ... ( read original story ...)
Special flights for Australians organised from Cambodia, India
A special flight is scheduled to depart Phnom Penh on Sunday night to bring home up to 210 Australians from Cambodia. The flight to Sydney has been arranged by the Australian embassy, who will conduct ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus, Turkish attacks threaten Kurds, Christians in northeast Syria
It was signed by Bassam Said Ishak, co-chief of the US Mission of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) and two colleagues, pleading for test kits to detect coronavirus infections in war-torn ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus ‘disaster in the making’ in war-torn Syria
As Europe and the United States struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, experts warn that disaster looms in war-torn Syria, where hospitals are unable to meet existing needs and hygiene ... ( read original story ...)
Yemen, Libya, Syria: Countries where coronavirus may be spreading unseen
Yemen, Libya and Syria had a combined total of only 51 cases on Sunday. Their neighbors have a combined total of more than 150,000 cases. It is not reasonable to conclude that countries like Syria ... ( read original story ...)
Fighting the coronavirus is worse than operating in Syria, says war trauma surgeon
A trauma surgeon who operated in some of the world’s worst war zones has said that fighting on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis is an “intense experience” and is as bad as “seeing children ... ( read original story ...)
As Rebel-Held Syria Fears Virus, Just One Machine Is There to Test
A single machine at Mohamad Shahim Makki's medical centre in Idlib province, part of Syria's last rebel stronghold, is the only alarm that will sound when the coronavirus strikes a population of ... ( read original story ...)
Kazakhstan Summons Chinese Ambassador in Protest Over Article
Kazakhstan's foreign ministry summoned the Chinese ambassador on Tuesday to protest over an article saying the country was keen to become part of China, the ministry said. ( read original story ...)